Rethinking contemporary social theory [Texte imprimé] / Roberta Garner, Black Hawk Hancock, and Grace Budrys

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Paradigms -- Paradigms in sociology -- Conflict constructionism : elements of the paradigm -- History of a paradigm -- Paradigm change in selected subfields -- Deep impact : the new paradigm becomes dominant -- Difference and dominance : race-ethnicity and gender -- Culture in an era of globalization (Soltero) -- The media in the information age : surface intensities and total symbolic environments -- Sociology of the self : from personality to persona -- Paradigms in play -- Political sociology and the analysis of collective action : old and new in harmony -- Urban sociology and spatial analysis : paradigms in co-existence -- Disruptions in the field formerly known as sociology of deviance (scott and thompson) -- Paradigm limited -- Social class and socio-economic inequality -- Contemporary theories of family life (medina runnfeldt and artis) -- (chapter thirteen) the sociology of health, illness, and medical practice: paradigms reconstituted in a trans-disciplinary field (budrys) -- Conclusion -- References -- Reading suggestions -- Charts / by Dan Causton -- Origins and elements of conflict constructionism -- Conflict constructionism as an anti-paradigm to structural-functionalism